FromMiddle English antecedent Old French antecedent Latin antecēdēns ( “ going before ” ) , fromantecēdō ( “ to precede; excel; surpass ” ) .
antecedent (notcomparable )
Earlier , either intime or inorder .Synonyms: precedent predecessive preceding Antonym: successive anantecedent cause an eventantecedent to the Biblical Flood
Presumptive .anantecedent improbability earlier in time or order
Bulgarian:предшестващ (bg) ( predšestvašt ) ,предишен (bg) ( predišen ) Dutch:voorafgaand (nl) ,vroeger (nl) Finnish:edeltävä (fi) French:antécédent (fr) German:früher (de) ,vorausgehend (de) ,vorgängig (de) ,voriger (de) m vorige (de) f voriges (de) n vorangehend (de) ,vorgängig (de) ,vorrangig (de) ,vorhergehend (de) ,vor- (de) Hindi:पूर्ववर्ती (hi) ( pūrvavartī ) ,पूर्वगामी (hi) ( pūrvagāmī ) Hungarian:megelőző (hu) ,korábbi (hu) ,előbbi (hu) Icelandic:undanfari m Italian:antecedente (it) Latin:antecēdēns Malay:sebelum (ms) Polish:antecedentny uprzedni (pl) Portuguese:antecedente (pt) Romanian:antecedent (ro) ,precedent (ro) Russian:предше́ствующий (ru) m ( predšéstvujuščij ) ,предыду́щий (ru) m ( predydúščij ) Serbo-Croatian:antecèdent (sh) m antecedȅnt (sh) m Spanish:antecedente (es) Tagalog:nauna Ukrainian:попередній m ( poperednij ) ,передуючий m ( peredujučyj )
Examples (linguistics: expression referred to by pronoun) In “The policeman asked the boy what he was doing.”, the phrase “the boy” is the antecedent of the pronoun “he”. In the sentence “I saw my girlfriend yesterday wearing her old jacket which is odd because she almost never wears it.”, the phrase “my girlfriend” is the antecedent of “her” and “old jacket” is the antecedent of “it”.
antecedent (plural antecedents
Any thing thatprecedes another thing, especially thecause of the second thing. Anancestor .1931 H. P. Lovecraft , chapter 3, inThe Whisperer in Darkness The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of knownantecedents and long with the company.
( grammar ) word ,phrase orclause referred to by apronoun or otherpro-form .1926 that rel. pron.”, inA Dictionary of Modern English Usage , reprint of the first edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published2002 ,→ISBN page634 , column 2:[W]hereas it might seem orderly that, aswho is appropriated to persons, sothat should have been appropriated to things[ …] antecedent ofthat is often personal
1988 Transformational grammar: a first course , Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page117 :One such condition can be formulated in terms of thec-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16) below:antecedent
( logic ) conditional part of ahypothetical proposition , i.e.p → q {\displaystyle p\rightarrow q} p {\displaystyle p} q {\displaystyle q} ( logic ) sequent , consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.(Can we add anexample for this sense? ) ( mathematics ) term of aratio , i.e. the terma in the ratioa:b , the other being theconsequent .( chiefly in theplural ) any thing that precedes another thing
Bulgarian:предшественик (bg) ( predšestvenik ) Catalan:antecedent m Chinese:Mandarin:前情 (zh) ( qián qíng ) Czech:předchůdce (cs) m příčina (cs) f Dutch:antecedent (nl) n voorafgaande (nl) n Finnish:edeltäjä (fi) ,edeltävä asia French:antécédent (fr) m German:Vorgeschichte (de) f Ursache (de) f Vorleben (de) n Vorangehende n Vorhergehende n Antezedenz (de) f Vorläufer (de) m Vorstufe (de) f Vorform f Greek:προηγούμενος (el) m ( proïgoúmenos ) ,πρότερος (el) m ( próteros ) Hindi:पूर्ववृत्त (hi) ( pūrvavŕtt ) ,पूर्ववर्त्ती ( pūrvavarttī ) ,पूर्ववृत्तांत ( pūrvavŕttānt ) Hungarian:előzmény (hu) Icelandic:undanfari m Italian:antecedente (it) m Latin:antecēdēns n Malay:sebelum (ms) Portuguese:antecedente (pt) m Romanian:antecedent (ro) n precedent (ro) n Spanish:antecedente (es) m Swedish:föregångare (sv) c Tagalog:nauna
ancestor
Chinese:Mandarin:前辈 (zh) ( qián bèi ) Czech:předek (cs) m Dutch:voorouder (nl) c Finnish:esi-isä (fi) ,esivanhempi French:ascendant (fr) m German:Ahne (de) m or f Vorläufer (de) m Vorfahre (de) m Vorfahr (de) m Uhrahn m Uhrahne m or f Stammvater (de) m Ahn (de) m Ahnin (de) f Ahne (de) m or f Greek:πρόγονος (el) m ( prógonos ) Hungarian:ős (hu) Italian:antenato (it) m progenitore (it) m Malay:keturunan (ms) Portuguese:antecedente (pt) m or f ancestral (pt) m or f antepassado (pt) m Spanish:antecedente (es) m antepasado (es) m ancestro (es) m Vietnamese:tiền bối (vi)
word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun
conditional part of a hypothetical proposition
The first of two subsets of a sequent
The first term of a ratio
Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.
Translations to be checked
Borrowed fromFrench antécédent Latin antecēdēns ( “ go before ” ) , fromantecēdere ( “ to go or come before ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /ɑn.tə.səˈdɛnt/ Hyphenation:an‧te‧ce‧dent Rhymes:-ɛnt antecedent n plural antecedenten diminutive antecedentje n
antecedent ( thing that precedes; prior fact, background fact ) ( linguistics ) antecedent ( referent of a word, esp. of a pronoun ) ( logic ) antecedent ( condition part of a proposition ) ( antonym(s) of “ logic ” ) : ( consequent ) ( antonym(s) of “ linguistics ” ) : ( anafoor ) antecēdent
third-person plural future active indicative ofantecēdō Borrowed fromFrench antécédent Latin antecedens
antecedent m or n feminine singular antecedentă masculine plural antecedenți feminine/neuter plural antecedente
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